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Remember, the nickname "Browser" was invented after the fact, to describe the program that loads URLs and displays them to the user. The proper name of such a p
by Karellen 3y ago
Remember, the nickname "Browser" was invented after the fact, to describe the program that loads URLs and displays them to the user. The proper name of such a program is "User Agent". It is a program that acts as the agent, or the servant, of the user.
My "browser" runs on my computer, by me, for me. It is not beholden to "all of the stakeholders", or "the rest of the people in the ecosystem". If my agent acting in a manner that User Agents were originally intended to, only fetching the URLs that I - the user - want it to fetch, "would cause a disaster to the health of the web ecosystem", then maybe the current web ecosystem is bad and deserves to meet with disaster.
The web managed to explode in usefulness and popularity before surveillance capitalism became a thing, not because of it.
- charcircuit 3y agoA web browser implements the web standards. The web standards are put together by organizations that do respect all stakeholders. If the web ignores stakeholders then people will migrate off the web. This is how you get into a world where you have to use mobile apps and the web is near barren.
- justinclift 3y ago> This is how you get into a world where you have to use mobile apps ... Are you meaning something different from the current state of affairs? Because, that seems to describe things currently.
- charcircuit 3y agoCurrently you often have the option to use either, but in theory the option to use the website could go away from many services if it's not worth it to have.
- youngtaff 3y agoAnd the other browsers rejected Topics as an API so it’s not a standard